Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 45193[.1-2]: '2 pieces of baleen,'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Mark in black ink: '1937 CARY ISLANDS HUT 1'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (Field collection)
Hut 1. Excavated in August 1937 by Thomas Lethbridge during the 1937 Cambridge Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic, led by James Mann Wordie. See MAA archive for list of objects (XA/1/28) and photo collection for lantern slides and photographs; see the University Library for excavation notebook (MS Add.9258/3).
Event Date 8/1937
Author: maa

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1938). ‘Appendix II: Eskimo Archaeology’ in J.M. Wordie, et al. ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’. The Geographical Journal, vol. 92(5). pp 385-418
Event Date 1938
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (References)
Lethbridge, T.C. (1939) ‘Archaeological Data from the Canadian Arctic’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 69(2), pp. 187–233. Fig. 4.14
Event Date 1939
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
One piece is a ?handle
Event Date 14/3/2001
Author: maa

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 26/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Small baleen handle with a rounded butt. Flat and straight handle, the tip is now lost; the tang flares toward a rounded butt. There is a substantial loss of material throughout the surface and delamination. Dark-brown surface patina.
Event Date 25/9/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones